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Watch A Robot Perform The "Evolution Of Dance"

You thought you had seen it all, but you haven’t seen this NAO robot’s sweet, sweet dance moves.

Remember that Evolution of Dance viral vid from a few years back? Sure you do. The grainy home video footage of “inspirational comedian” Judson Laipply performing a dance mash-up weaving together signature moves from Elvis’ hound dog days up through the boy band era has made its way around the internet more than a few times, racking up close to 200 million views in the process. Well, get ready for a 2.0 upgrade starring the NAO robot.

We first fell in love with these cute little bots from Aldebaran Robotics at Coachella 2011, when we brought a whole fleet of them to entertain the sunburnt festival-going masses at our Creators Project tent. We’ve also seen them do stand-up and perform in burlesque shows in the work of social roboticist Heather Knight. This, however, may be NAO’s pièce de résistance—Laipply’s got nothing on his dance moves.

@juliaxguila